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Victor Kahn

Victor Kahn (1889-1971) was a Russian--French chess master. He had an active international playing career. Kahn played in several Chess Olympiads. He represented Russia in first unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924, and played for France four times. He won the French Championship in 1934. He was co-author, with Georges Renaud, of one of the great chess books on tactics ever written, The Art of Checkmate.